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Do you recommend reading them on your computer, on your phone, tablet, e-reader, of printing them and putting them in a binder?

Also, how to download them without getting malware, trojans, Pegasus and other Mossad programs on your computer?
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I regret downloading such books on my new 2000 euro new computer. Might be compromised now by intelligence agencies, hackers and so on.

In retrospect I should have used a dedicated cheap computer just for downloading the books and printing them.
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Are you retarded or are you schizophrenic
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>>25514873
download off project gutenberg, archived.org or google books. gutenberg will have almost everything that's in public domain, and they'll have it in .epub format, which means very small file size and high degree of adjustability. the other sites will probably only offer .pdfs, which are larger files, tend not the offer much adjustability, and most e-readers will lag a bit when you turn the pages.
read them off your e-reader. the e-ink screen is much less straining on the eyes. i wouldn't want to got through the bother of printing a whole book.
i recently paid 70 dollars for a two volume re-print of a book. it's a nice copy, but i only did it so i could share it with my mother. i'd be deep in debt if i did that every time i wanted to read a book that was out of print. the e-reader is a huge money saver to anyone who reads regularly. i have more than 500 books on mine and i didn't pay for any of them (even though they aren't all in the public domain).
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>>25514893
>download off project gutenberg

Seems like a prime place for the intelligence agencies to distribute their spooky undetectable trojans, malware and Pegasuses from. Why would you trust this?
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>>25514887
anon is AWAKE and AWARE. give it a try sometime.
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>>25514893
I think this can be a valid approach as long as you don't use your main computer to download the files. Either download them directly via wifi to the eReader or use a cheap computer you use only for that purpose and only that purpose: downloading the book and loading it to the eReader.

The moment you download anything (anything at all!) to your main computer, all intelligence agencies are monitoring your every keystrokes. 100% serious but people can't fathom it.
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>>25514907
Still I think this is too risky an approach. As soon as you download something, via your personal network, even if it's on an isolated sandboxed computer/eReader, you have opened Pandoras box and all the evils of the world are injected into every device on that network, that includes your wife's and your children's devices. It also works the other way around and much more likely. If you let your wife and children use your network, they will download intelligence agency Trojan software and they will infect all of your devices.

It's fucking over really if you think about it
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>>25514911
>>25514907
And obviously if you connect even once to Public wifi, it's all over for you.
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>>25514893
>i have more than 500 books on mine and i didn't pay for any of them (even though they aren't all in the public domain).

Admitting to crimes on the internet, special agent?
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>>25514887
I think he's being paid. He makes them so often, but it's really incompetent well poisoning. Research effort for a company by an autist?
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>>25514926
Meds
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>>25514893
>gutenberg will have almost everything that's in public domain,
I find they don't, they have a teeny tiny catalog of politically correct domain works that vanishes to nothing when you get outside of the canon, or selecting randomly some pulp novels. Archive.org has far more, but the format is bad for ereaders and women who have trouble with tenacity, like you said PDF is large, laggy, and most concerning of all not formatted for e-ink display devices, and you can encounter stealthy malware on that website when you visit the wrong domain. ( https://dailysecurityreview.com/cyber-security/internet-archive-abused-to-host-stealthy-malware-jscript-loaders/ ) If you are going to print out books and put them in a binder archive . org still presents a problem in that the scans are generally not perfectly clean looking, but full of dark shadows, scratchy artifacts, and sometimes even a finger makes it into the scan! ( https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284030/page/n38/mode/1up ) I recommend loading the PDFs from archive . org in a sandboxed virtual machine on a PDF reader that does not execute JS (SumatraPDF, Foxit in safe mode, or add any PDF reader to your firewall,) and then export the PDF to images of each page and print them out that way. I would never use the built in PDF reader in the web browser even if you can toggle JS support in the browser, because there will surely be exploits that bypass or re-enable those settings.
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>>25514875
No one cares about books.
People who actually do things never wasted time reading.
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>>25515258
Napoleon had a portable library.
Both Hitler and Churchill wrote Books
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>>25515253 cont
Well I have inhaled my morning coffee and I do not want to mislead anyone. What I would actually recommend is checking to see whether the plain text generated by OCR is good before messing around with .PDF and if it's readable and not garbled then copy and paste it into a basic text editor and save it as txt. From there you can change the size and shape of the text and it won't execute any javascript behind your back assuming your text editor isn't a sneaky llm communicating with demonic stealth prompts under your nose such as Microsoft Windows 11 Notepad Satan Edition. But even better if you can get hand-edited plaintext which is the actual reason Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks are the first place to look than archive . org.



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